Describes the lives of ordinary Americans in the first decades of our new country and how their lives were-and were not-transformed during this period of massive change in the nation's politics, society, and economy. A portrait of how Americans experienced their work, how they built and furnished their homes, their popular culture, how they came to be a restless and far-traveling people is drawn from letters and documents from the period, and the perspective of comments from foreign visitors, plus illustrations from the period. | The Reshaping of Everyday Life by Jack Larkin, Paperback | Indigo Chapters